Canada – Immigration Intake, 1860 to 2014

A Serious Look at Canada's Immigration Policies

Immigration Watch Canada is an organization of Canadians who believe that immigration has to serve the needs and interests of Canada’s own citizens. It cannot be turned into a social assistance / job-finding program for people from other countries. It should not be a method to suppress wages and provide employers with an unending supply of low-wage labour. It should never be a social engineering experiment that is conducted on Canada’s mainstream population in order to make it a minority. **

1. Net Cost of Immigration to Canada: up to $35 Billion per year. That amounts to $95,890,000 per day, and so far in ,

2. Number of immigrants coming to Canada per year: an average of close to 250,000 since 1991 (Note: in 2016, Canada took in about 300,000). That’s 822 per day, 34 per hour. This unnecessary and relentless intake is an abnormality in our immigration history, and has made many Canadians feel like strangers in their own country.

3. Number of Temporary Foreign Workers allowed to work in Canada: We hit a record 491,547 in 2012 (5 times higher than in 2002)!! That number consisted of 213,573 new TFW’s in 2012 and 277,974 TFW’s already here.

4. Canada gave refugee status to 122,518 people from 2009 to 2013. That’s an average of 24,514 people in each year — 67 per day. The number of people applying for such status was probably at least twice the 24,514 number.

5. According to the Canadian Bureau of International Education (a private advocacy group), there were over 336,000 foreign students in Canada in 2014. The CBIE and many public agencies claim that International Students are a net economic contributor to Canada. However, NO Canadian study has ever been done to prove that claim. In fact, in the U.S., a study done by the National Academy of Sciences and other agencies showed that in spite of the high fees paid by International Students, U.S. sources were actually subsidizing International Students. In the case of Graduate students, the average subsidy was about $12,000 + per year. Canada continues to accept large numbers of NEW international students every year.

6. Remittances sent overseas, representing the amount of money sent ‘back home’ by foreign-born workers in Canada, total $24 Billion a year.